Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Books, bookplates, postcards: First editions, Military, History …, 71325, Ultimo

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
July 13, 2025 - July 13, 2025
Page Size: 351 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26

This lot comprises a pair of leaves from the Latin bible printed in 1485 by Johann Gruninger in Strasbourg.

in Strasbourg 1485 by Johann Gruninger AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 254.00
27 George Edwards (1694-1773)

Four plates by British ornithologist George Edwards (1694-1773) and prepared by Johann Michael Seligmann for the masterpiece 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds'.

AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
28 Ion L Idriess.

Madman's Island

Sydney 1927 AUD 600.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 539.75
29 Tate Adams

Artist book: Tate Adams

Melbourne 1997 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
30 Bruno Heroux

A folder of 27 original art works by Bruno Heroux

AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 952.50
31 TA Glenn.

The Family of Griffith of Garn and Plasnewydd in the County of Denbigh: As Registered in the College of Arms from the beginning of the XIth Century. Edited at the Request of The Right Hon. The Lady Daresbury of Walton in the County of Chester

1934 AUD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
32 the Rev. Daniel Tyerman and George Bennet, Esq.

Voyages and Travels Round the World,

1840 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
33 Walter Feldman.

A Packet of Letters

1988 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
34

Acta Cartographica

1967, 1971 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
35 by CA Baker.

Souvenir of the Australian and Malayan Battle Planes 1914-1918

in London 1920 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 825.50
36 Charles Bayliss are held in the National Library dated circa 1885 but these are not identical so we cannot be sure. <br> <br> <br> Charles Bayliss (1850-1897) was an English born photographer who came to Melbourne with his family when he was 4 years old.

Five Albumen prints. 1) Fish River Caves "Grecian Bend" 2) Helena Cave "The Madona" 3) Fish River Caves " The Mystery" 4) Zig Zag Railway NSW

AUD 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
37 George Peter Holford

Holford Letter to Bexley 1829 Octavo half leather and marbled boards and new endpapers.

AUD 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
38 Henry Melville.

Observations respecting the Islands of the Mauritius, written during a Short Sojourn there in 1828

Adelaide 2004 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
39 translated Catherine W. Leftwich, B.A.; De Garsault, M.

The Art of the Tennis-Racket-Maker and of Tennis.

Maryland, 1977 AUD 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
40

Anzac Memorial

Sydney Australia 1916 AUD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
41 Clifford Craig, Kevin Fahy and E. Graeme Robertson.

Early Colonial Furniture in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land

1972 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 165.10
42 Thomas' Skottowe

The Skottowe Manuscript: Thomas' Skottowe's | Select Specimens from Nature of the Birds Animals &c. &c. of New South Wales.

1988 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 127.00
43 A. Henry Savage-Landor

Across Unknown South America

in London 1913 AUD 350.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
44 William Jackson Hooker.

Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809

in London 1813 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 444.50
45 Anne Tyler.

A Patchwork Planet

Franklin Centre, Pennsylvania, 1998 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
46

The Pioneer Association of South Australia 113 volumes

AUD 300.00 - 400.00 AUD 190.50
47 Hebert J. Rumsey, F.J. Lond., James Emery.

The Pioneers of Sydney Cove Compiled by Hebert J. Rumsey, F.J. Lond.

1937 AUD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
48 Vittorio Tessera.

Innocenti Lambretta. The Definitive History

Milan 1999 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 88.90
49 edited by Lance St. John Butler and P. J. Wordie.

The Royal Game

Stirling 1989 AUD 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
52 John Heaviside Clark.

Aboriginal Life in Old Australia Being an enhanced facsimile of Field sports, etc. etc. of the native inhabitants of New South Wales

Melbourne 2003 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 AUD 635.00
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